Friday, April 10, 2009

Images of My Classroom's Reading Center




I am grateful to the Brown's for their incredible gift to our students in providing this nice carpet for our reading center! The kids have loved stretching out and cracking open good books! Thank you....Mr. and Mrs. Brown...from Carpet One of Northwest Arkansas!


Sunday, April 5, 2009

Springtime, Blackberry Winter, Allergies, and Standardized Testing...ugh!!


Ok...these are just a few of the "big" events in my teaching world right now! What is stressing me out the most? Standardized testing would be the answer, since I take it as my personal report card every year!! I believe that I have placed more focus on the teaching of Reading and vocabulary this year, more so than any other year. I am anxious to see what impact...if any...it will have for each of my students. In year's past...I have placed a lot of focus on writing/language arts...but, this year it has been with great importance in writing and greater importance in reading....we will see when those results come in!!